US Patent Issued to Thales Alenia Space Italia S.P.A. Con Unico Socio on March 18 for "Optical flow odometry based on optical mouse sensor technology" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,649, issued on March 18, was assigned to Thales Alenia Space Italia S.P.A. Con Unico Socio (Rome).

"Optical flow odometry based on optical mouse sensor technology" was invented by Fulvio Bresciani (Turin, Italy) and Giorgio Fasano (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical flow odometer to determine the position of an object movable relatively to a surface is provided that includes a cluster of digital image sensors intended to be arranged on the movable object at respective reference positions and an electronic processing and control unit electrically connected with the digital image sensors and configured to: operate ...